Fallbrook friends host a barbecue for Camp Pendleton Battalion – 1 troops

FALLBROOK – Everyone loves a barbecue but no one loves it more than the platoon of hard-working Marines of Combat Logistics Battalion –1 at Camp Pendleton. So, when Mary Ann Hillery of was asked by military chaplain Steve Brown if she could organize a little noon-time barbecue for the troops, of course she said “Yes!”

Hillery, whose devotion to the Marine family has never faltered after almost 40 years of being the wife of a Marine (now retired); the mother of a Marine; and mother-in-law to a Marine, collected a generous donation of burgers, hot-dogs, and all the fixins’ from local...